Top logos go to panel for selection

Representatives from AGN Media met with the Amarillo City Council on Tuesday afternoon to deliver the results of the city-wide logo contest. Globe-News Publisher Les Simpson presented 16 finalists to be considered for adoption as the city's new moniker.

The city will use a blue-ribbon panel of graphic arts and marketing professionals to select a winner that will become the new logo.

Trent Connolly, 12, was named the winner in the parody contest. Connolly came up with concept, "Amarillo, it's better than it smells," after he moved to Amarillo from Albuquerque this summer and hated the smell, but loved the people he met.

Amarillo's creativity was well represented with more than 530 proper and 141 parody logos submitted and 32,525 votes cast in both rounds.

The proper logo winner will receive $1,500 ($1,000 in cash from Roasters and a $500 gift card to any AGN Media advertiser); Connolly will receive $750 in gift cards ($250 from Roasters and $500 from AGN Media).

View the finalists in the proper category and the top 10 finishers in the parody category by clicking here.